Liège · cultural · listed
Le Forum (salle de spectacle et cinéma Churchill)
- Architect
- Jean Lejaer
- Date
- 1922 (begun 1921)
- Type
- cultural
- Style
- Art Deco
- City
- Liège
- Status
- listed
- Address
- Rue Pont d'Avroy 14, 4000 Liège
A large Art Deco entertainment hall built in 1921-1922 to plans by the architect Jean Lejaer for the company “La Comilière”. The complex originally comprised a 3,000-seat hall, a 900-seat basement brasserie, “La Feria”, and several bars. Devoted to cinema and music hall from 1925, it was run by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from 1935 to 1955; in 1947 the former brasserie became the “Churchill” cinema. Restored in 1987-1989 by the architects H. Natowitz and P. Sauveur, the Forum has since been devoted mainly to music hall. The hall, the peristyle and the façade are listed.
Translated from the French original.
Sources
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Other works by Jean Lejaer
- Le Coliseum Charleroi · 1925